ENGL 328: Victorian Poetry

Instructor: Susan Jaret McKinstry
Winter 2012

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Course Description
Victorian poets are prolific, challenging, inventive, and deeply engaged with the intersection of words and visual images in poetry, painting, and photography. We will read works by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Matthew Arnold, Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Gerard Manley Hopkins, and others. We will examine Pre-Raphaelite painting and poetry, and collaborate with Linda Rossi's photography students to create Victorian photographs that depict Victorian poets and poems, which will be exhibited at the end of the term in the exhibition Picturesque Deconstruction.

Picturesque Deconstruction Project

Introduction

Students in Linda Rossi's Studio Art 240: Introduction to Film and Digital Photo and in Susan Jaret McKinstry's English 328: Victorian Poetry collaborated during winter term 2012 to create a photographic intersection between Victorian poetry and photography. Applying the divergent aesthetic theories of John Ruskin and Walter Pater to their work in Victorian poetry and techniques of photography, the students asked: What is the connection between observing and preserving in words or images? How does the seeing self affect the object seen?

Assignment